Sun Nier was in the south gate of Fengdian City, and finally found her housewife, Xia Lily.

But Xia Lily was already a cold corpse, a corpse with a whole body. Sun Nier couldn't believe that this young lady and wife she had been with for ten years - since Xia Lihe was still in the Xia family's old house in Pingquan County, Sun Nier was her personal maid, until she married to Fengdian Wang's house five years ago - and now she is separated from her yin and yang!

Xia Lily*'s body was covered with bruises and purple scars, I don't know whether they were beaten or bitten; With dried blood on her thighs, no obvious knife wounds or gunshot wounds, Sunnier understood that she should have been killed by Japanese soldiers and thrown to the base of the city wall.

Sun Nier didn't dare to cry, for fear that the cry would reveal her true identity as a woman: at this moment, she was dressed as a man, wearing a thick fur hat, and a few cigarette ashes on her face, mixed with the crowd carrying the corpse. On the walls of the southern city above her, there were still Japanese soldiers with loaded guns wandering insidiously.

Immediately beside her was the old servant of the king's shopkeeper's house.

On the morning of the day of the break, the old servant was instructed by Xia Lily to send breakfast to the southern city wall to the king's shopkeeper on duty; However, before he arrived in Nancheng, the young and strong people on duty at the head of the city dispersed in a hurry after learning the news of the Japanese army's breakthrough. The old servant did not find the king's shopkeeper in the empty city, so he stumbled back with a basket for breakfast, and was stopped by the fleeing crowd on the way, and by the time he approached his home, it had become a battlefield of fierce firefights.

It was not until the 391st Regiment was expelled from the county town by the Japanese army and the war subsided that the old servant dared to return home, but what he saw was the mansion that was devastated by artillery bombardment, and in the mansion, he found the owner Wang Shopkeeper, who had half of his head blown off, and the hostess, maid and child were nowhere to be found.

With tears in his eyes, the old servant moved the body of the king's shopkeeper to the corner of the wall and covered it with a quilt. He is a native of this county and has not worked in the Wang family for a long time, but the male and female hosts treat him very kindly. He planned to take the body of the king's treasurer outside the city for burial after it was peaceful outside.

However, the Japanese troops who occupied the county began to sack on the same day. Because the courtyard of the shopkeeper Wang is a two-entry courtyard, with blue bricks and gray tiles, high roofs and deep walls, it soon attracted Japanese soldiers, and about dozens of people broke in before and after to loot. There was also a group of Japanese soldiers who had kidnapped several young women, and they stayed here, and when they saw that the old servant was old, they did not pay much attention to it, but only shouted at him in stiff Chinese to boil water and cook. Then, they forcibly took the women into different rooms and took turns to commit violence, and the old servant couldn't look at it, so he stopped it a little, and was beaten by two of the devils.

Two days later, the gang left the king's house contentedly and went to join the troop of men, leaving behind the women who had been repeatedly ravaged to the point of dying.

Sun Nier, who had been hiding in the dye vat of the dyeing workshop, had the courage to sneak out into the street and return to Wang's house after that. Two servants, an old man and a young man, who survived the disaster, wept and wept relatively much: the old man died tragically, and the life and death of the wife and the child were uncertain. The old servant hid Sun Nier and went outside to listen to the rumors, until he confirmed that the army of devils had been driven out of the city, he disguised Sun Nier as a man and followed him to the southern city to find it.

They did not see the child's body (presumably taken away by well-meaning people), but they heard from several residents who had come out to look for them that the bodies of several naked women were discarded at the base of the southern wall.

There, they found Summer Lily.

Wrapping Xia Lily's body in a few rags that she had picked up temporarily, Sun Nier and the old servant carried the hostess back to the house with the help of other residents.

They picked up two intact new ones from the clothes that the Japanese soldiers had thrown on the ground, and put them on for the shopkeeper Wang and Xia Lily. Facing the miserable corpses of the male and female hosts, Sun Nier kept trembling, she silently shed tears, and silently muttered in her heart:

Brother Wood, where are you? Qin Tuanzuo, Chief of Staff, where are you?

Did you die in battle or did you flee like the Jin army? Do you know what happened to the people of the whole city who were plagued by devils?!

In the Great Elm Mountain, this place called Xiaozhai is really just a small village, with more than 30 families scattered along the half-human-high wall built with stones along the mountain.

The temporary regimental headquarters of the 391st Regiment is in this small village.

A few days ago, after withdrawing from the east gate of Fengdian, Qin Zhongxiao and the others ran to the eastern mountain: at the foot of the Great Elm Mountain, there were many entrances to the mountain in that area, and they chose one of them and hid into the mountains.

That was the line that Qin Zhongxiao had already reconnoitred by the spy company.

Along the mountain road, which was sometimes high and sometimes low, they passed through three inhabited villages.

The first place, called the bluestone pass, on both sides of the cliff mountain road lies a stone wall four or five zhang long, I don't know what age it was built, it has been very dilapidated, but from a distance, there is still quite a bit of a pass posture. On the hillside behind the bluestone pass, a few families live sparsely. Qin Zhongxiao was here, and a platoon of the third battalion was retained as an outpost for defense.

The second place, named Tonggou, is a large village in a ravine, with hundreds of households, and Qin Zhongxiao arranged the remnants of the third battalion and the entire second battalion there.

The third place is this small village, the regimental headquarters and a battalion of the 391st Regiment, stationed in this area.

The three places are two or three miles to six or seven miles apart.

Along the march, Qin Zhongxiao sent the chief of staff to count the existing strength of the whole regiment. The third battalion had one hundred and eighty-eight men, and the battalion commander was killed; The second battalion had three hundred and fifty-seven men; There were two hundred and ninety men in the first battalion, and the battalion commander was wounded; There are 21 people in the spy company and 19 people in the regimental headquarters. The individual guns were basically there, and all the heavy machine guns were lost, including the two Japanese 92 heavy machines that were accidentally captured under the city of Fengdian Dongcheng, and they were also discarded due to the fact that they were all out and difficult to carry; There are eleven more light machine guns. One radio station, two telephones, and one roll of telephone spools.

The telephone line was laid along the mountain road at the first time, and two telephones, one at the forefront of the Qingshi Pass sentry post and the other at the Xiaozhai regiment headquarters: they hid in the mountains, and they could not become deaf and blind.

At this moment, standing at the highest point of Xiaozhai, the colonel of the Central Army glanced at the peaks and valleys of the big elm covered with snow, and sighed heavily: he finally survived, but the losses were heavy; The whole group is nested in this big mountain, and the future is also bleak. The Japanese took Fengdian from their own hands, when will this arrow revenge be avenged?!

Zhao Mutou didn't know when he stood beside him, Qin Zhongxiao looked at this thin and tall captain, he should be looking in the direction of Fengdian, although he couldn't see it at all from a few mountains.

"Tuanza, when are we going to call back?"

The sudden question from the spy company commander couldn't help but shock Qin Zhongxiao, he looked at the other party again, and sighed in his heart: Good boy, the murderous spirit is still there!

He didn't answer Zhao Mutou, but turned around and walked towards the house of the temporary regiment headquarters. You just lost an important hand, and you don't have many good cards left, so you need to calm down and think about it.

He really didn't know when he would be able to call back.

But he's definitely going to fight back!

In the eastern suburbs of Wencheng, Liu Wumei sent one of her bodyguards back to the city to find the background of the second boss to check the background of the gang of puffy ruffians, and she herself was not in a hurry to return to the mountain immediately; Several people staggered, and when they walked more than a mile away from the foot of Guanmen Mountain, Liu Wumei simply stopped.

The female bandit leader who was still angry was planning how to bring a few good hands next time and how to eradicate the ruffians one by one. Cousin Xiaoju still has palpitations, and is ashamed of being insulted by the ruffian.

"Ju, you have to learn some kung fu in the future, and if you run into a scoundrel again, you will beat him hard!" Looking at her cousin who was raining and weak, Liu Wumei was distressed and angry.

"I don't want to learn," Xiao Ju sobbed and said, "I'm a girl, what's the use of learning that thing to fight and kill!" ”

"Why didn't it work?" Liu Wumei became more and more angry: "Now that the army is in chaos, learning some self-defense kung fu is better than letting the ruffians bully you at every turn!" ”

When my cousin heard this, she began to cry again. But as soon as her cry sounded, Liu Wumei suddenly reached out and covered her mouth: "Softly! Listen—"

Gunfire rang out in the distance, very dense.

For a while, Liu Wumei was worried that something had happened to the bodyguard sent back, but soon, the master identified the direction where the gunshots were coming: "It's not Wencheng, it's Little Elm Mountain!" ”

Everyone's faces changed greatly, they all knew that the other end of Little Elm Mountain was Fengdian County, and the guns rang out in that direction, could it be that the Japanese were coming from Fengdian?!

The master immediately asked everyone to leave quickly, but Liu Wumei refused, she wanted to sneak over and see with her own eyes if it was the Japanese army. The master was anxious and shouted loudly. Although Liu Wumei is a big boss, the master is an old man who has worked hard with the old master, and he has also made contributions to Liu Wumei's later takeover of the Black Stone Cliff Cottage, so the female bandit leader still respects him quite a lot.

In the end, it was decided to send another bodyguard to the area where the gun was fired to check the situation, and Liu Wumei, Xiaoju and Master immediately returned to the cottage. As a result, the bodyguard caught up with Liu Wumei and her party not long after they entered Guanmen Mountain, and the situation he brought confirmed people's speculation just now: the Japanese had hit the eastern suburbs of Wencheng, and the men of the 12th Brigade were exchanging fire with them.

Liu Wumei stumbled and said regretfully: "I knew that the little devil would come so quickly, so I wouldn't have urged Wangzi to run back!" ”

She was referring to the bodyguard who had been sent back to Wencheng.

The master comforted: "It's okay, Wangzi will go to the second master's house, and he will be safe." If the Japanese attack the city, they will not be stupid to break out. ”

"Master, tell me about it," Liu Wumei had already changed her thoughts: "If the Japanese occupy Wencheng, will our restaurant still be able to open?" ”

"When the Japanese are here, they have to do business. We don't know about Beiping and Tianjin, but in Datong and Taiyuan, those who should do business are also doing business now," the master pinched a few sparse beards, and replied in an old-fashioned manner: "Don't worry, little Japanese children are also people, and they have to eat, dress, and sleep with women. ”

The bodyguard rattled with joy. Xiao Ju thought what they said was vulgar, so she covered her ears and didn't listen. The female bandit leader frowned and fell into deep thought.